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* ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' series has an invading alien ecology [[Terraform|transforming Earth]] into a world where humanity will not only serve as food, [[Eat the Dog|but will welcome it]].
* In David Weber and Steve White's ''In Death Ground'' (a novel based on the ''Starfire'' tabletop wargame), on every human-colonized planet the Arachnids take over, they eat the locals.
* The Martians in [[H. G. Wells]]' ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' are here for the food. As [[Science Marches On|medical science at the time]] (or at least Wells' understanding of it) had the digestive system actually transforming food into blood to keep the body moving, the Martians "fed" by directly transfusing human blood into their system. So this is [[Older Than Radio]].
* They actually have the cookbook in real life, inspired by the [[Twilight Zone]] episode.
* This trope is one of the main themes in Michel Faber's ''Under The Skin''. The book plays with the reader's perceptions as {{spoiler|the aliens call themselves "humans" and refer to Earthlings as "vodsels". The protagonist's job is to pick up human hitchhikers while disguised as a voluptuous human female, and deliver the meat to a farm to be processed and sent to the home planet for the rich to eat as a delicacy.}}
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*** It's not impossible, depending on the language structure. The "poor luck" scenario in this particular case is more a 20% chance or so than a 1% chance, at least in Earth languages.
** The episode foreshadowed the twist ending by saying metaphors that compared humans to livestock. In fact, one of the first things the aliens did was {{spoiler|build huge containment shields, ostensibly to end war forever.}}.
* The aliens in ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' plan on making humanity into a food source. Subverting the trope since it didn't follow though, however, they seem to have no problem with eating ''other'' mammals as well (see: the famous sequence where one swallows a guinea pig whole).
* The first season of ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]'' ends with the Blackwood team allying itself with an android sent by a "friendly" alien race to help protect mankind from the invaders. Her final message back to her homeworld before leaving, subtitled for the benefit of the audience, but untranslated for Blackwood and his team, changes a hopeful ending to a [[Downer Ending]]. The message? "Humanity still in danger as future food supply."
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